Is there any way to check the availability of a web service without
including any extra web method?
Thank & regards
nRk

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event to fire again if a previous event is still occurring.

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properties.  Setting its' InitalDirectory does make the first time it
opens, open up in the right directory.  However, everytime after that
it remembers the directory that the user navigated too and opens

I am creating a MVC pattern code for my project and here is what I am
doing
in the view constructor
presenter = new presenter(){name = "MVC", view = this, age=30};

I have the following code
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
foreach (string name in FilesNames())
{

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classes without using its return value is an error. I wished I could
declare this as an attribute of the function itself that would then
cause a compiler error if that return value was not used. Has anybody

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                        null,
       new object[] { m_nCleTemporaire },                                  

Does anyone know of a good GIS plugin for VS 2005?
Thanks

I am trying to do this line of code:
txtBxMessageBody.Text = ".\\ " + treeView1.SelectedNode.Tag.ToString();
I am getting an error back.  It is something pretty simple but I can't
figure it out.

I have some code like
if (val.GetType().Name == typeof(List<>).Name)
{
}

How to set Fonts to muliple Styles
for instance
Font oFont = new Font("Arial",10,FontStyle.bold)
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I have here some example code (below) that I believe should work fine.
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properties:

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I need to find out what the original size is to compare it with the actual
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is there a way to convert the compressed stream to
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